On
Thursday, a Malaysia Airlines flight crashed in Ukraine and Israel began a
ground invasion into the Gaza strip.
The
Dow Jones index fell 161.39 points, or 0.94%, to 16,976.81, closing back below
the symbolic threshold of 17,000.
The
S&P 500 plunged 23.45 points or 1.18%, to 1,958.12, and the Nasdaq index
dropped 62.52 points or 1.41% to 4,363.45.
Malaysia
Airlines Flight 17 - a Boeing 777 with 298 people aboard crashed on the Ukrainian border near Russia.
That
followed news earlier in the day
